In and interview with the Daily Mail, Cher said she initially met Tom at Sean Penn and Madonna’s wedding in 1985. But the diva went on to reveal that it was a learning disability what would not only reunited them, but actually bring them closer together despite their 16-years age gap.

“A bunch of people who were dyslexic were invited to the white House and Tom and I are both dyslexic,” she said. And though there wasn’t an immediate spark, Cher admitted “there definitely was a connection there,” which led to the couple eventually going out.

And though it wasn’t nothing more than a “pretty hot and heavy” fling, as she described their relationship talking with Andy Cohen in 2013, Cher, now 72, and Cruise, 56, are still in good terms as she is with most former lovers.

But we never thought otherwise. I mean, the woman put him on her list of top five lovers of all time! If that’s not being on good terms, then we don’t know what is!